Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Security Council). The Army had won President Truman's backing for outright merger with the Air Forces as a third and coequal branch. The Navy recognized that in any case there was virtue in getting together on the lowest level-down where procurement, recruiting, training and transport services overlapped...
...Manhattan's Hotel Lexington, representatives of ten airlines from eight different countries gathered. It was the first meeting of the North Atlantic Conference of the International Air Transport Association. Some of the airmen had traveled over 4,000 miles to attend this long-awaited meeting to fix minimum Atlantic fares. It lasted just five minutes. Reason: the Civil Aeronautics Board had not granted U.S. airlines permission to participate...
What spurred them all was "Connie's" proved performance-a much-improved performance over any existing airliner's. Connie will fly 43 passengers from New York to London at 300 miles an hour in 13 hours, faster than any other transport now in production; airlines which didn't have Constellations feared that travelers would ride on airlines which did. Lockheed's sleek new beauties had quietly started a postwar revolution in air travel...
...same way, Bob Gross took on the job of building the Constellation. Howard Hughes and T.W.A. President Jack Frye wanted a transport plane which would fly farther, faster and carry a bigger load than anything in the air. When Consolidated Aircraft turned down the job, Lockheed accepted it. Then the Army ordered Lockheed to build it for the Air Forces; T.W.A. would have to wait. Thus, when the Army canceled its contracts after V-J day, Lockheed had the plane ready for the airlines...
...first commercial transport which Convair has sold, is still in the design stage, will not be ready for delivery until 1947. It will be a short-haul, 40-passenger plane in the 300-mile-an-hour class. Unusual features: specially designed engine exhaust stacks which will provide jet assistance; passenger entrance near the nose through a door with a built-in ramp. With the 240, American Airlines hopes to make a "good approach" to 3?-a-mile air service...